A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics, Hygiene, and the Diseases Peculiar to Women and Children, 1. köideRichard Quain Longmans, Green, and Company, 1882 - 1816 pages |
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Page xiv - Assistant Physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton ; Lecturer on Materia Medica at the Charing Cross School of Medicine and Assistant Physician to the Hospital Sm.
Page xiv - DISEASES OF THE LUNGS. By JAMES KINGSTON FOWLER, MA, MD, FRCP, Physician to the Middlesex Hospital and to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton, etc.
Page xii - MD, FRCP, Obstetric Physician to, and Lecturer on Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children at, the Middlesex Hospital; Physician to the Royal Maternity Charity ; Consulting PhysicianAccoucheur to the St.
Page 272 - ... had that competent use of his understanding as that he knew that he was doing, by the very act itself, a wicked and a wrong thing > If he was not sensible at the time he committed that act that it was a violation of the law of God or of man, undoubtedly, he was not responsible for that act, or liable to any punishment whatever flowing from that act.
Page xv - MD Physician to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, and to the West London Hospital, &c, NOTES ON ASTHMA.
Page 273 - But an act may be a crime although the mind of the person who does it is affected by disease, if such disease does not in fact produce upon his mind one or other of the effects above mentioned in reference to that act.
Page iv - ... on the methods of their use. The articles devoted to the subject of Hygiene treat of the causes and prevention of disease, of the agencies and laws affecting public health, of the means of preserving the health of the individual, of the construction and management of hospitals, and of the nursing of the sick. Lastly, the diseases peculiar to women and children are discussed under their respective headings, both in aggregate and in detail.
Page xiii - On Chronic Bronchitis, especially as connected with Gout, Emphysema, and Diseases of the Heart. By E.
Page 297 - ... months old, or on the other hand may cut the first tooth at four months. The regular order is as follows : lower central incisors, upper • central incisors, upper lateral incisors, lower lateral incisors — each pair coming at intervals of three to six weeks: at about the fourteenth month the front double teeth (anterior molars) appear in the two jaws, and four or five months later the canines, known popularly as the "eye and stomach teeth.
Page 8 - The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the